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continue her/his education. To substantiate the gender bias, the probability of falling ill among the girl children is found to … child. This is because the girl children are often engaged in household activities and even when they are engaged in income … earning jobs they are shown as helpers. Parents' income as such may not be having a positive impact on child's education …
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investigates the determinants and factors associated with children's education, with a special focus on delays in schooling, which … regardless of their gender; and (3) paternal education is preferentially and favorably influential to the same-gender child(ren …The Philippines has achieved a relatively high standard of education. Previous researches, most of which deal with …
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In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can...
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The paper investigates the ageing situation in India and the development of the government initiatives for the welfare of senior citizens. It also presents the initial results of a survey that the author conducted in 2011 in North Delhi. The main features related to ageing in India are...
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of electricity reduces fertility, and this impact is more pronounced when the household already has two or more children … the optimal number of children but not necessarily current fertility behavior if the optimal number has not yet been …
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The paper explores the effects of birth order and sibling sex composition on human capital investment in children in …
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significantly increased home study hours among schooled children, especially in the night and before exams. School attendance rate … study time and initial school attendance rate, however, did not improve children's exam results. We also found marginal …
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slum children is much lower than that of children in Delhi as a whole. Parental perception of education and financing … education are the major constraints. Even if children are attending schools, the majority of them are over-aged. There are both …This paper showed the basic educational status of slum children between 5 and 14 years old. The attendance ratio of …
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This paper reports the results of an analysis of changes in income inequality, and in its determinants, in urban China … during the period from 1988 to 1995. Second, age was the major factor in inequality in 1988, while education became the … important factor in 1995. Third, education significantly contributed to increasing inequality during the period. Fourth, the …
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In order to prevent, suppress and punish human trafficking, bilateral agreements between origin of victim countries and destination countries are crucial, because their cooperation involves cross-border activities such as repatriation of victims, extradition of criminals and information-sharing....
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